Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.
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A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C., took place.
Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was 'Feminism.'
